Improvement in confluent cocks



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. -JoHN'- H. e. vuAWEs, -oENEWAak NEW JERSEY.

Letters Patent No. 103,329, dated May 24, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN- coNrLUENT cocks.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame To all whom it may concern.

Beit known that I, JOHN H. G. HAwEs, of the l city of Newark, in thecounty of Essex and State of New Jersey, have make certain Improvementsin Cocks for athsyand'declare the following, taken in concocks, moreespecially adapted for use in baths; and

' The invention consists in a nove]v construction of the cock itself,and in providing it with an index, by which to regulate the `{iow of hotor cold water, or

botha't once, as hereinafter explained.

Fginre [represents a bottom view, with the pipe and plugin section, ltransversely, on a liorizo'ntal plane. l i

Figure 2 is a side elevation, and

Figure 3 is a view of asprinklerto be used in con- Iu baths it isdesirable to have the water-pipcs so arranged that hot or cold water maybe admittedat will. This is usually accomplished by having separatepipes for each, with a distinct cock for each pipe.

'lhe object of my invention is to provide a cock by .which the two pipesmay be united, and either liet'or cold water may bepadmittedwseparately, or both admitted together, and the supply of eachregulated at will, and to which a'ilex'ible pipe, with a sprinklerconneeted, may bereadily attached, l

'lo accomplish this, I provide a pipewith taper ends, a and b, andhaving a boss at its center, at which the passage-way is reduced toabout one-third of its area, the passage-way at that point being all onone side,

`asshown in fig. 1'. I then make a hole through thiscentral boss toreceive a plug, d, which is made hollow, and open at its lower. end, andwith a side open ing, c, leading into it, inline with thebore of thepipe, as represented' in iig. l; this plug d being provided with ahandle below the main pipe for turning it, as shown in fig. 2. Thisvplug l extends down below the handie far enough to have a flexible pipe,e, secured to it, as shown in fig. 2, it being inserted from below, andsecured by a nut or plug screwed onto or into its upper 9ndasrepresented in iig. 2.

lo the opposite end of the exible tube e, which may be of any desiredlength, I'attaeh a sprinklingnozzle, 71, which is -also provided wthahandle, p, by Awhich it can be held, so as to apply the shower of waterto any part ofthe person, as may be desired.4

I also provide a disk, f, which has marked on it the words hot, mixed,and cold, as represented in iig. 1, this disk heilig attached rigidly inposition, and in' such relation to thev opening c ofthe plug and to itshandle 1 that, when the plug is so turned as to admit`the flow of eitherkind of water, the handle shall vstand opposite the corresponding wordon the disk, as

represented in g. Il. By this means the bathercan always set' the cockto `furnish the kind desired, and prevent mistakes.

It will be observed that by the peculiar construction 0f' thepassage-way in the main pipe, and-of the opening c in the plug, thelatter maybe so set as to shut oli ing it so that the opening c willstand at right'angles to the main pipe, with thehaudle over the wordinixcd both hot and cold water will be permitted;

to flow together; and it is obvious that, by turningit slightly to theright or left, the amount oi' either may be regulated at will.

' It will, ofcourse, be understood that the cold-water pipe will beconnected to one end ot` the main pipe, and thehot-water pipe to theother end, b indicating the former'and a the latter, in this case.

Having thus described my invention,-v

1. The pipe provided with the passages'a b` and the tubular plug :1,with the side opening c,'wh en said parts are constructed and arrangedto operate as de seribed. f

2. In combination with the above, the index-plate f, when arranged inrelation thereto, as set forth.

J. H. G. HAWES.

Witnesses:

W. M. GooDING, EDWARD CoLLY-ER.

